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‘TME NBWS.I,
Guay, Joses County, Feb.21, ’06.
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LOGIC AND SUFFRAGE.
The holding of the female suf
frage national convention in Geor
gia lias aroused considerable talk
and discussion as to whether or
not the right to vote and hold of
fice ought to he bestowed on wo
men, and in a recent number of
the Atlanta Journal some of the
b st known men of Atlanta ox
pre.iH their opinions, Tho views
of The News on this question are
quite emphatic. They have been
given heretofore, and we presume
it j-: not necessary to give them
again, but there is one view of the
question that, from the argumen
tative standpoint, leaving out all
reference to th<> sentiment that
surrounds the question, is impor
tant and conclusive, and that was
not touched upon by the gentle
men ( jnoted in the Journal, so far
as we remember.
Tim law is partial to woman, if
such a term may be used with
reference to that which is based
upon exact justice to all citizens.
It throws around her every pro
tection, and gives her certain
vight- denied men. She. may con
tract debt, and if she is not abli
to liquidate it, her husband must.
In the event of a separation from
her husband, she is allowed alimo
ny. The husband is compelled ft
support the wife if site is not abb
to support herself. The widow i*
allowed exemption of homestead,
dower uiul year’s support, and in
fact the laws relating to property
are very strong ami clear in theii
special protection of widows.
None <J these special legal rights
are granted to men, and in Geor
gia tliis special protection extends
to the very proper limit of making
it a penal offense to spread gossi;
intended to bear down a woman’s
character.
On the other hand, certain bur
dens that women are exempted
from art* imposed upon men. One
of tin -o is the payment of poll
lax, ami another is road duty.
Jury duty is required of men
alone, and the preservation of
public peace and the protection of
life and property are required in
a public sense of men only.
The right to vote and hold of
fice is about the only special right
that moo enjoy under the law,
and, as has been shown, men are
denied various legal rights that
are granted to women. This being
true, it would seem that the de
nial of the voting and office hold
ing right to women was no hard
ship, and in fact that the special
legal rights granted to women
were inti tuled to compensate for
that denied them, and that the
one special legal right to vote and
hold office granted to men was in
tonded to tie offset by laying upon
him special legal burdens, This
view presents the matter in such
a light as to make i; surprising,
without reference to any other
consideration, that any woman
should demand, in addition to
what has hoen granted her both in
special legal rights and immunity
from certain legal burdens, the
privilege of voting and holding
office; and it ought to settle onep(
suil and tor all hough the question of ot the female i J
rage, t course n * j
born preference side of women and the toi tDe*j
domestic of liie ;
note modesty and refinement of
women generally hsi* already de
rided it that in this generation at
least female suffrage is an impos
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FRUIT CULTURE.
We s<>e it stated—and no doubt
the statement is correct—that
hi a good fruit season Houston
<-*ar .oad» ot
- Hchcs, Ft‘sides supplying
home market. A visit to that
county in the fruit season would
K a levi'lation. -i0 ^ ■ < ‘ ,w 1
■-•.bur-' carried on in a manner
norone imr mochanic.nl
ty, and the acres and acres of or
chard s are wonderfully well kept.
Peach growers there are getting
rich, notwithstanding two succes
sivo failures in the crop; a good
crop every three years yields
profit enough to offset two fail
ures, and in fact the fruit grow
era would not care to have a large
crop oftenor than every other
year—the fruit would b" iub iior,
and the trees would suffer.
11 Houston can make money at
peach growing, why canr.ot Jones?
We have here very good railroad
faeililies. The Georgia or Macon
ifc Northen road runs by Gray,
James, Round Oak and Haddock,
arid shipping would be convenient
and transportation quick. No
doubt both of these excellent roads
would furnish special and through
cars if the industry warranted it..
Fruit and vegetable farms have
frequently been poor investments
because the growers were imposed
upon by their commission men,
who sold the fruit or truck at
good prices, pocketed nearly all
the money, then wrote the grow
"rs that the market was glutted,
or that the consignment arrived
in bad condition. There is a rem
edy for this, however, and in the
case of peaches it consists in bring
ing tin; buyers upon the scene,
and selling the crop to them on
the trees. This is done in Fort
Valley, whoro during season fruit
buyers make regular trips. It no
loubt could be done hero.
It is gratifying that as one good
result, of the recent very cold
weather the prospect for good fruit
and a plenty of it this year has
t.een made excellent. If there
wi re some large orchards of El
berta peaches of hearing age in
fones county, 18115 would in all
likelihood be a year to be remem
bered here for the profits • in that
fruit.
The fruit industry is entitled to
lie known ns something bettor
than a side industry. In the
South everything on the farm ex
cept cotton is called a side indus
try, and tho Southern people are
not going to experience much pros
perity until they make cotton it
self tho side industry ami a sur
plus crop, No sensible man
would advocate stopping cotton
raising, but on the other hand
none would show very good judg
rnent by continuing to give up
nearly all of bis land to cotton
when tho staple did not bring
back as much as was expended to
place it on the market.
It has been demonstrated again
that the South is in a very good
condition, comparatively speak
ing. The suffering during the re
cent blizzard North, West and
South demonstrated this.
Congress will adjourn March
I. It has done nothing to relieve
the financial situation, and most
likely it will do nothing. We do
not hesitate to any that there are
some good men in congress—the
work of the last session showed
that, though that work ought to
havo been more thorough. We
do not hesitate to say that there
are some very contemptible speci
mens of citizens in congress—th<
fact , , that they are permitting .... ■
drteat last November to inuk"
them indifferent to and neglect
tul of their public duties attests
that. But they will be at home
a f tl >r March 4. Keep them there,
nn( j n t the next congressional elec*
jj ong |,q (} 10 party have as candi
dates men who know and will do
thoir duty without reference tit
their own political future,
PERT IN K N T COM M E N T.
Columl ’» l So11 tino1: Mr ‘ Smith
of Atlanta, never made
a wiser remark than when he
said: “Let Ingorsoll talk. A
.
religion that cannot bear the
fiercest light of investigation and
truth is not worth believing in.
Middle Georgia Progress: About
two vears ago a young attorney in
' '
i Vright „ h;,, promiso a t0 1>RV
account he owed the Progri
soon as ho could go home and j
change his pants. Ho has not
changed remains unpaul. them yet, as the account!
Columbia Sentinel: Governor
Atkin is right in being _ ji»
won
posed to put the election of Con.
grossman in tins district olT a*
long a« possible. People have in
terests of more importance than
being thrown into a hot political
contest just at tho time they
gin their crops.
Tifton Gazette: Outside help
j 3 vpr y u j Cf , aXi< i acceptable, but a
failure to get any should not be
a i| owe d to chock the wheels
p ro gj. eM an( } prosperity. ‘’The
g 0 j H tn*lp those who help them
9e i veg) ” aIu i the South should
wor k on t } )0 f own salvation with
energy and independence.
Albany Herald: Atlanta’s
Poacher, Dr. Hawthorne,
last Sunday, used as the subject
for a sermon, “Woman Suffra
gists,’’and ho scored them right
and left. The Doctor is correct—
women should not want to go to
the polls and vote; it is not
their place, and we don’t believe
any great number of them advo
ca *° suffrage,
Atlanta Constitution:Undoubt
edly, this is the only safe policy.
If we produce too much cotton
and rely upon other sections for
our food supplies, we shall suffer
worse evils of poverty than we
have yet experienced. The thing
to do is to live at home and keep
what little money we have in our
pockets. When we do this we are
not likely to suffer.
Tifton Gazette: The vagaries
of the average Tifton washwoman
are numerous and very annoying
to the women who employ them.
Here is one that tests the pa
tience and forbearance of the
good housewife: They gather the
soiled cloths Monday, use them
in their own family where they
can, until Friday morning; then
launder and carry them home to
the owner late Saturday after
noon.
Brooklyn Times: It must be
borne in mind that the income
tax is a piece of legislation in
which the Democratic party al
most in its entirety is pledged.
The only section of the country
which is adverse to it is here in
the Northeast. In all ather sec
tions the Democrats are delighted
with it. In the South and West
the income tax is regarded as a
most salutary law. They are
more closely drawn to Grover
Cleveland because he suggested
it.
Thomasville Timos-Entorpriso:
Congress is confronted with the
responsibility of another week in
which to carry out the pledges of
the party to the people, or to con
vince the public even more surely
that it is suffering from softening
of the brain, says tbe Augusta
Chronicle. The whole country is
disgusted with the factional fights
and dilly dallying of Congress. A
number of ibe cranks who have
successfully blocked legislation
will, after tho 4th of March, re
tire to the dense shades of private
life.
Nashua Gazette: The proposi
tion to have the Government fore
j close its mortgage on the Pacific .
rai]road8 aml tll0n run them as
(} overnmout property is some
what atart]ing t0 tho”sober com
mon sense of the ^ Gov .
ornmeut ownership and control of
railroads in other countries have
not proved as profitable or suc
cessful as those run upon tho sys
tem of free competition and it
will take very strong arguments to
convince the people of this conn
try that it is a wise policy to
crease its civil service by
thing like a million employes as
won id be the case should the
movement extend to all railroads
as the Socialists propose. While
the present system has many
faults tho proposed one is much
worse.
NOTICE.
As T am the duiv elected Coro
nor vt this vouiitv. I hereby noti
fv all Jimtic us of the IVa<- ‘not tn
hold inqu st. t ;ver any dead body.
My office is at the store of H. J.
J. T. Finney, Haddocks, Ga.
R, B. Ti:av:'
ORIGIN OF THE PEACH.
Nothing is now more universal
ly accepted than the fact that the
acli is a i mprovo d varietyof the
almond. The almond has a thin
shell around the stone, which
splits open and shows the stone
when matured. This outer skin
has simply become fleshy in the
p eftC h, go that ii is all that gives
j t jt g specific character, ltsoems
n()W c i oar from investigation in
the history of ancient Babylon
j n their gardens, nearly 4,
000 years ago, the peach was cul
tivated then as it now is.
tm u r? r n ”T y yenrs
before , . this , that the peach \\ as lm
proved from the almond, and this
fact goes to show the great antiq
uitv of the fruit. ’ Possibly gar
demng . respects, at , least , ,
in some
so far as it relates to many of our
cultivated frutts, was as far ad
vanced ' 6 ’ 000 or S 000 or perhaps
10,000 „ - , back it ... to-day. , ,
years as is
Phoenicians ’ ’ many thousands
of years ago, as is proved by the
records, had in their gardens al
monds, apricots, bananas, citrons,
figs, grapes, olives, peaches, pom
. and
egranates ; even sugar cane
was in extensive cultivation. Cor
tainly this shows how far advanc
ed these nations were in garden
culture many years ago.—Detroit
Free Press.
The joke is on the Congress
men, and especially on those of
them that voted for an income
tax. The attorney general has
ruled that their mileage . part
is a
of their income and they '• must
pay tax on it. J here seems to be
unanimity ° the members
*
that they , don t cosider mileage
income in this matter Neverthe
less it will be so considered. The
legislators enact the laws, and it
is their privilege to mean what
they please. The attorney gen
eral interprets the law after they
are made and what he says
“goes.”—Union & Recorder.
JONES SHERIFF SALES.
By virtue of a fi fa issued from
Jones Superior court at April
term 1889, in favor of W. P,
Glover, admr. N. S. Glover, for
use Ac., vs. W. W. Barron, admr.
of estate A. J. Middlebrooks, deed.
I will soli at Court house door in
Clinton, Jones Co., Ga., in the
,!.: legal hours of sale, oil first Tues
(U% v in in March Maltli lil re-t -vt, the Go fee t*.. sirmlo Mi.ijiU
reinaiiK.i-r l-nterest, alter expira
tion of dower in one hundred one
aud a quarter acres of land, more
Vf. nr 7 less ’ shunted l ‘ iii U Wbrio’s Vt “v' G ■ *' M
Gist., said , county, on the M. & hi.
it. R., near Round Oak, adjoins
Mrs. White J P. "sold Green and
ers. Levied T and -V ns nronertv 1 [ 1
'
ot . estate , ot - , J. T MKlulebrooKS, u
deed., to satisfy said . fi fa.
ertv pointed out in iv,d sanl fi fa and
notice R tenant in
possession and the admr. ierms
cash. tx.u Fob. 4th,1895. tii. -ions:
R. N. Ethridge,
Shif. Jones Co., Ga.
J. C. Barron. M. C. Greene.
BARRON & GREENE,
Agents for Buying and Selling
Land.
Cooperating with ex -Gov. \\ . J.
Northen, of Alanta, manager of
the Emigration and Investment
Bureau.
Parties having land for sale are
requested to confer with us, either
in person or by letter.
Barron & Greene, Clinton or
Gra >b Ga -
FOR SALE.
I have a second hand printing
press that 1 will sell at a bargain.
A. A. Penn,
Monticollo, Ga.
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... EXPOSITION CITY ...
OF 1895.
YOU NEED THE NEWS Oi th* Cotton
I States an4 Internationa! Exposition this
; year. You are coining to visit it. You may
want information of the section it is of in to [
secure the advantageous investment profitable employ- your
money or to accept some
ment In the South. You will get it all in a
nutshell—get it regularly every week for the
jyear in
Tbs Atlanta Weekly Constitottcn.
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TUE CiWSTITUTlON,
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BEITS CHEAP COTTON
Atlanta’s Commission Trade Of
fers Some Suggestions.
IT 13 SUPFLIED EY OTHER STATES,
New ITf>rk, Virginia, Ohio nirl Other
8txt<-s fin I n MnrUet Grorjln
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Might svoii su|i|)i/ it—Suiu« i-’iffure*
Sliowlnc the Ailvnn'aji- It Would Itv to
the Farmer* to Unite O trilen rro-iucte.
“My firm," said Mr. O. L. Stamps,
“does an annual business in produce of
135,000. The bulk of it is shipped to us
trom out of tho stato. Louisiana, Ala
bama, Tennessee, Virginia, Ohio, Mich
igan, Indiana and New York find a
men 0 j tjjo city. i
These states sell us with a profit the ;
produce of their soil. New York ships
to Atlanta thousands of barrels of Irish j
potatoes, and receivos a good price for i
lhem> Tennessee also ships us
quautities this 0 f potatoes. of Cabbage the comes from j
to us at season year
New Orleans and around Mobile, cabbage Ala. j
Early in the year we get j j
from Virginia, but the supply there is
always exhausted by this time. Later |
in the spring Florida will ship large ;
quantities of cabbage to us. Nearly ad
of our butter do comes chickens from and east eggs. Tenues-j North \
see, as our
Georgia supplies the Atlanta market j
with a fair per cent of the last two
items. Onions we got from New York, |
in the main. Georgia pretty well sup-;
plies the market with sweet potatoes.” Doolit-: j
“Lint & Lovelace,” said Mr.
tie, their bookkeeper, “have a large j
trade in the various articles of country ,
produce you have mentioned. The i
amount, of course, varies during the :
year, according to the season. I have
been figuring for two days on the busi- 1
ness ofabout a year and a half, and i
have here the figures of au average
month’s business. More than 75
cent of the produce comes from other ;
states than Georgia. Nearly all of the i
butter and eggs we handle come from
east Tennessee. I calculate that in a ■
nioa th we handle ISO worth of
ens and $600 worth of butter. Irish po
tatoes are shipped to ns from the north
an d east and we send away monthly at
least $905 for that one item. V. e lian
die but little butter, but most of it
comes from Tennessee. I should say $83
a month would be a good average.
ions arc au important item in our trade,
and they are shipped to us from New
York almost entirely. We handle $1,-
200 worth in a month. Tho money for
them goes to the ea-.t. The sweet pota
toes we handle wouldn’t exceed $100 in
a mouth. ’ ’
Mr. T. A. Murray, of the Southern
Produce company, said that out of an
average week’s business of $350 nearly
90 per cent of the articles sold came
from outside the state. North Georgia
supplied some butter and eggs. Vir
ginia and New Orleans held the cab
bage market, and east Tennessee had a
corner on butter, except what was sold
by the north Georgia farmers.
"Warsaw, Tenn.,” said Mr. E. B.
Stanley, one of the city’s best known
commission men, “furnishes many At
lauta merchants with butter and eggs
and chickens. This is a thriving town,
to judge from its daily shipments to the
commission men of Atlanta.”
“My firm.” said Mr. Potty, of Petty
Brothers, did a business last year of
, 0()a Nearl tha wh ol 0 of it was in
1 j art j’ c i es 0 f country produce. We get
butter from east Tennessee, from Chi
i cagoand from the mountain counties of
Georgia. Yes, the Chicago butter is
I fairly good if we get it in time. It is
| creamer y butter. We ship Irish pota
toes from New York. Cabbage conies
from Mobile, Ala., Louisiana and Vir
i S iuia - Onions are shipped to us from
Ohio. Georgia supplies us with
■ n ip g and s -veet potatoes.” told
Practically the same story is by
all of the commission men. Of course
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j represent the same percentage of
1 maud for the products mentioned. They
are articles found upon every table. The
demand for them, of course, comes from
the pcoplo through tho retail grocery
men, whom the wholesale commission
men supply. These representative firms
quoted give some idea of the volume of
business done by the commission trade
the city. As can be seen, thousands
of dollars pass through its channels
weekly. Tho bulk of the money goes
out of the state.
1 If there is any practical suggestion in
this commercial side light it is this,
that hero a fine opportunity is dieted to
the productive class of Georgians. !
Here is a ready, anxious, profitable
market for articles of produce that ev- |
ery Georgia farm cau produce abun
dantly and successfully. the It is a splea
did field right and at doors of Georgia
farmers, in this era of 5-cent and 4
ceut cotton it is especially enticing. |
COTTON. !
I asked Mr. O. L. Stamps why Geor- j
gia could ,, not . furnish . . ... the commission . .
market of Atlanta with the articles
spoken of. of
“I know no reason,” said ho, “ex
cept that the farmers are rooted and
grounded in the cotton idea. They
have had it so long that they can’t got
nd of it. It s an old tradition. Why, !
there s much more money in raising
these articles that we havo been talk
L ng of * f 7 a rcad y mar i et CM
; be , found all tho year round than in |
lhar“ than g C mfauonn°d pound. V6n * pric3 !
o cents ee a
ONIONS.
"To illustrate: I know a farmer who
lives less than 20 miles from Atlanta
who determined to plant an acre in oti- j
ions instead of in cotton. The result
amazed him. It is a fact that many of
the commission men here know to be
true that he sold in one year §500 worth
of onions off that acre. If anything,
the labor of cultivation was less. The
cost of getting the sets was probably a
little greater than the cost of cotton,
but look at the result. It is a
good acre of land that will produce ■;
haje ^L of cotton. 0 ?* 40 ? ua It * is T the orta exception. mo re tMn A
suits $5.. This man vi a tbe very best , re
in cotton would have received $470 i
lags profit on his one aero if he had put \
it in cotton. The onions can be plant
ed closa together in rows, and the rows
Er1r3S£
than Georgia for Irish pot
the huge pile of money tho; .
of the state evc-ry year for I.v-h
toes could be saved if tho fai n .
plant potatoes for (he market
BUTTER lUIUN'Q.
“East Tennessee nos evi ry e, \
age over Georgia as a butter p. -J
country because of the utt im c
care they give to the pr .
butter. If we get a eon.-:,.i.v >
Georgia butter, it is made r a
co’ors of butter—some whit",
yellow, sonic (leap yellow. 'j
sec shipment the ol butter is on
for reason that the Tot -,<•
has a process of melting it ,.i. ■
train rdmelllz? '“NVelb'it
express, and I should say the r
press toll and the cost, of canni
amount to about 2 cents a pon.i:
zx&Fsrsrr -
supply the market hi re if t h • .
would only turn their energy an
nnclei » said h .
jj ves j nst over t!j0 jj no of y. -
Cobb county. Last year 1;., ■
of an acre of orui :
““““-J ’merely 1
"This illustrates \y
Georgia farmers can do in th ■
tion.”
“There is hardly an firth
the commission men of there
one of the bast known comm
in Atlanta, “that the Georg ;
could not furnish ns. Far.
other states ship us the art; id
make a great prolit off of them
they can do it, why certainly , 1
days of cheap cotton, tho :
Georgia can do as well.”
hush potatoes.
“As fine Irish potatoes as
grown anywhere can be grown v.
gia soil. Magaificaut cabbag.
grown it, but celery, here, and you good would iitt ;|
as as w
Michigan, All can be produced in -.
it requires is plenty of r.n
Georgia truck farmers could ; ro
profitably. chickens, a||
“The butte?, eggs,
and of dollars other go articles out of ior Atlanta which thorn t< beg ids||
states every week, should be pro; .;•»
right around Atlanta, ■)ip:||
“Why, if I had a farm, situ ie •
vonient to a shipping lttud point, ~
think of putting my in cm
would run the northern and
farmers ont oi tire Atlanta n*a.. ** W:
get some of the benefit of it
Thete are not only some 80 or rouH
mission houses ia Atlanta wh at |
doing a thriving business, but vki-re ar / y
in Atlanta four or five hr- wh
represent big producers in i vest 5
north and east and sell to the soolg
gion men. Those brokers get i
profit on all their sales, the coo.; ;^sioM thaB
mail the gets of a shipping good profit, and then the add . ti§|
cost p .fit
the producer and the article i. -jeesp
sarily somewhat expensive t- re .ro;® »
gets to the consumer. Thor. '
all along tho line. Georgia f nrirhH ., mejg|
who are located convenient to ; yosuH
should.adopt this suggestion t " tK
and instead of pinning their riiJranB faith
cotton try this. A lie good, th®
profitable market can fount! ..A
year round.”
kaisixg for market. theSf
The Georgia farmers wiio soil
products to the commission men r.i
very few. The few who do soil that
products do not make a busines s of rais
ing for the market, but finding tip
they have more than is needed
consumption plus. Within they dispose of tae the sc
a short radius of ciq
there arc a number of thrivii th® m *
prosperous truck farms, but
deal with the commission men
direct have their to the own delivery In wagon-andsel nearly evd
consumer.
instance they have thrived. There uiill^ is
progressive farmer, near Moore’s
11 miles from Atlanta, who, thro
years ago,.gave up the planting of cot
ton for truck farming and made inor
in one year from the latter tha:. he di
iu three from cotton. Ho now has
paying lino of customers in the city.
ROOTS OF CORN.
Question 3.—Please tell m© to wha
depth the roots of corn penetrate, an
to what depth should one plow to pro
dnee the bo.st crops?
Answer 8.— This a very far reachin
question, and covers an area which v
cannot go over iu a paragraph. been know As t
to the first, corn roots have
to descend to the depth of nine fee
This, of course, was under most favot
able conditions, but the fact is author
tic. The answer to the second clause c
your should question is that the depth tho of ploy
ing vary according to qua tb
ity of the land and the distance of
subsoil from the sttrfa co. It is bad po
icy to torn up large quantities of claj
and therefoi'o alt characters of lan
cannot be plowed alike; but where .th
soil is opened and pulverized to th
depth of 10 or la inches the cro
stands 10 chances to one against iiiiur
from drought. We have in mind
piece of very ordinary land in our ow
county, the breaking of which wa
done last spring with a one horse plow
followed by a subsoiler. It was ma
n ,, rr . ( i heavilv, and the yield was 4.
pp.gi^ig on 1( j acres of ] aJ1 .t. Whereve
we see the twisted, yellow leaves o
tha ‘ ton ii
corn during a drought, ThSncfldal^eRs a ti l
S
dry weather. o
A preparation are never more plain dm
ly thaa on 0 crop of corn
in g a drought. I saw daily during th
pari summer a field of corn which full;
illustrated the wisdom of deep plow
in _. gido bv id were the rows, out
g^en rmd vigorous, the deeply others plowed twist* aj
and yellow; tho first, broken
the outset, the second merely usual shor o:,
the surface, according to our
sighted system,
supplemental crops.
Question 4.—Farmers are advised t
supplement their cotton crop with otht;
paying ero^g. Will you mention som
that southern farmers can engage 1
profitably? I don’t mean castor bean
or hops or anything else with which v
are unacquainted. 1 nt something tha
we know - u;: ■ ..ur soil ; nd will so
well?
Answer 4.—We have had seven rep!
questions 011 this line, and for
would r fr ■ on- ■ ients to tr
.
commits , ■ ■k” for th
month lie ct» given i
another ri tvcri'or Not
.
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